Song Dong's Waste Not

Waste Not by Chinese artist Song Dong is the largest project ever to be installed at Sydney's Carriageworks art centre. That's because there are more than 10,000 everyday objects on display—everything from bowls and buckets, to lamps, electrical cords and even soap. The items belong to Song Dong and his family—they've been collected by his mother over a period of five decades and collated for this project following the death of his father in 2002. Waste Not premiered in Beijing in 2005 and has since shown at MoMA in New York and the Barbican in London. Now it's showing in Sydney, but it wasn't easy getting it here; it had to be shipped over in two enormous shipping containers, because it also includes an actual section of Song Dong's family home.